Day in photos: Dec. 24, 2012

Nigerian pilgrims sit inside the Church of Nativity, revered by Christians as Jesus’ birthplace, in Bethlehem.

Reuters

Hoarfrost coats the trees on the banks of the Yenisei River outside Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.

Reuters

Queen Elizabeth II dons studded 3D glasses to preview a recording of her Christmas greeting to the British commonwealth at Buckingham Palace.

EPA

A giant panda plays with a tire swing in the snow at Yantai Zoo in Yantai, China.

ZUMA Press

Twenty-thousand fans of the German soccer club FC Union Berlin gather at the Alte Foersterei staduim in Berlin for a two-hour Christmas sing-along.

AFP/Getty Images

A man with a horse cart slows traffic on a bridge plagued by a heavy morning fog (which also slowed air and rail traffic) in Jammu, India.

AP

A black-capped squirrel monkey unwraps a Christmas gift in its enclosure at the zoo in Frankfurt, Germany.

AFP/Getty Images

Three knee-boarding reindeer ride along the Potomac River at National Harbor in Maryland as part of a Water-Skiing Santa show.

AFP/Getty Images

School girls watch Indian women’s rights protesters demonstrate in New Delhi, India, where authorities began shutting down roads in an attempt to end a week of the gatherings sparked by a brutal, public gang-rape.

AP

Londoners walk past sale signs on Oxford Street as the holiday retail assault picks up on Christmas Eve in the UK.

AP

An Indonesian family evacuates a residential area of Jakarta flooded by heavy rains.